Well, if the Russians do activate an invasion force from Gyumri, Armenia, they will be truly throwing gasoline on a brush fire. Gyumri is about 50 miles from Kars. Kars, now in Turkey, was in an Armenian Democratic Republic until the Turks took it back. Before then it had been bouncing around between Ottomans and Russkies.

That ought to get Turkey’s attention, like totally, you know? The one major rail line between Kars and Tbilisi comes out of the Lesser Causasus to visit Armenian Gyumri before crossing them again to the Kur valley and on to to Tbilisi. Russian armor on that plain would have a flatland shot along the Kur river to Baku, Azerbaijan.

We should be very concerned about the Russian & Persian empires divvying up the little guys of the Caucasus and Central Asia. It is, like, what they do, you know? Century-in; centuries-out; rise and fall; rise and fall; snore… compulsive little sh*ts, aren’t they?

The USofA has a compelling and legitimate interest in keeping a doorway to the West open through the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Our mortal enemies, the Persian Empires and the Russe, have long been the mortal enemies of the small fry who make up the peoples of those regions. Those people’s need strong Western support to have a little hope to prosper from their own labors.

So, if Ivan Stinky-Bear goes Ape over Georgia’s East, well, that pushes the Turks and the Azeri’s into active confrontation, like it or not. At that point Armenia is going to look like a very big mistake.

Anyone want to bet that, if they use their Armenian bases, them thar Russkies will end up keeping Abkhazia but the rest of Georgia will be restored (S. Ossettia will be forgotten), and Armenia will lose half its territory (plus Naghorno-Kerabakh) to make Azerbaijan into one contiguous shape.

And whoever commented about the Armenian diaspora, well, you actually know any Armenians in the diaspora, do you? Racist.

Mr. Vlad the Inhaler Putin really ought to declare victory and go home.